This work sets out to chronicle the predicament which the state of Hyderabad under Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan found itself as the British prepared to partition the Indian subcontinent in 1947. With the intent to understand fully the place of Hyderabad before the partition, it offers a glimpse into the Nizam’s relationship with the British Empire throughout its history, especially focusing on the period of Mir Oman’s reign, while also comparing Hyderabad to states, Travancore and Kashmir, which faced similar difficulties after partition. Although the Nizam had legal right to maintain Hyderabad’s independence in post-partition India, India never accepted the idea of a sovereign state in its center and with the onset of partition violence and subsequent issues with Pakistan involving Kashmir, increasingly prepared to bring Hyderabad into accession in whatever way needed. By tracing the negotiations which took place between the Nizam and India, as well as the situation on the ground both in and around Hyderabad during the 1946-1948, this work elucidates the issues which ultimately led to the downfall of the Nizam’s regime in Hyderabad while offering a view into the further effects which partition had on the princely states in India. / text

This paper examines the production of the thesis film The Last Act of a Desperate Man. The film's production is explored with respect to writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound design, technology and workflow. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of acting and directing simultaneously. The production is examined with regard to major decisions which influenced each area of production, ultimately shaping the final film. The film maker's own analysis is offered in conjunction with feedback from a test screening with a statistical analysis of the test audience's poll responses.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universidad de Valladolid, 1979. / Errata slip inserted. Includes documents. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. [25]-30).

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1894. / On t.p. "n̳" is superscript. "Sonderabdruck aus Heft 4, Bd. 113 des Journals für die reine und angewandte Mathematik"--P. 17. Vita.

Thesis (doctoral)--Georg August-Universität zu Göttingen, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (p. v-xiii).

James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. Lawrence) of an author who socialized in the salons of New York and Paris but dreamt of noble savages in the untamed American landscape but also as an expression of America’s difficulties in coming to terms with its conquest of the Indians. As a complement to these views, this essay attempts to show that the character Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye, represents the new nation’s ambivalent relationship with the surrounding wilderness and therefore helplessly torn between vastly different ideals. On one hand, Hawkeye appears to show us a less confrontational way of relating to the wilderness: one that implies the possibility for man to transform himself and live in spiritual unity with nature—a notion that would make Hawkeye the forerunner of the ideals put forth in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1836 essay “Nature”. But Hawkeye’s relationship with the woods and the Indians is complex, self-contradictory and filled with deep inner struggles, and he is at other times a merciless figure who divides Indians into good and bad. As such, his very character seems to be the embodiment of an American identity that is highly conflicted. In addition to examining the novel’s depiction of Hawkeye, the Indians and the forest, the essay offers a wide historical perspective of the ideas of nature that were present or just emerging in Cooper’s time, including those expressed by Emerson, as well as their Romantic and Christian influences. By understanding how Americans struggled to deal with feelings of guilt and sorrow in the face of the perceived decline of the wilderness in the 19th century, we might better understand the persisting importance of Cooper’s work.

Ingeniero Civil / En el presente trabajo se busca evaluar el potencial existente en la información que se genera al usar la metodología Last Planner y que se captura a través de IMPERA, software de Planificación y Control de Proyectos, desarrollado por el Centro de Excelencia en Gestión de Producción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica (GEPUC), implementado en varias empresas de nuestro país. Para lograr esto, la investigación se basa en la creación y posterior propuesta de implementación de indicadores que permitan controlar y predecir el desarrollo de los proyectos que estén siendo coordinados por IMPERA. La creación de estos indicadores es basada en el estudio previo incluido en el documento de la filosofía Lean, la metodología Last Planner, el método del Valor Ganado (EVM), el aprendizaje en el uso de IMPERA y algunos otros software similares, además de la recolección de datos en las empresas donde GEPUC ha tenido participación. En relación a éste último punto, el trabajo incluye un completo análisis de la base de datos proporcionada por GEPUC, en donde se detallan de forma anónima y confidencial los patrones de uso del software que tienen los usuarios de IMPERA, obteniendo importantes hallazgos que actúan como materia prima para el desarrollo del resto del trabajo, que fue divido en tres líneas de investigación: en primer lugar, en el análisis comparativo entre IMPERA y los softwares de su competencia en búsqueda de indicadores replicables; en segundo lugar, en una puesta a prueba de la hipótesis planteada por los investigadores Fernando España, Cynthia Tsao y Mark Hauser en su artículo Driving Continuous Improvement by Developing and Leveraging Lean Key Performance Indicators enfocado en una posible implementación como un nuevo indicador en caso de hallar resultados positivos; y finalmente en tercer lugar, en la creación de un indicador de autoría propia que consiguiera ordenar las actividades de los proyectos según su nivel de importancia definido por las variables que maneja IMPERA. Tras recorrer estos tres caminos, se consiguieron las siguientes conclusiones: el análisis comparativo arrojó que en vez de incluir un nuevo indicador, es más conveniente mejorar uno de los indicadores que ya tenía el software (EVM); en relación a la comprobación de las hipótesis planteadas por España et al, se concluyó que a pesar que sus suposiciones no fueron acertadas, de igual manera la teoría propuesta por ellos se podría utilizar para definir un nuevo indicador dado que se hallaron patrones de variables que lo permitirían; y finalmente en relación al indicador de creación propia, se definió una calibración inicial del mismo, en el que su validación se dejó propuesta como parte de un trabajo futuro.